The Promise of Integration of HIV Into Primary Care: Challenges and Opportunities

The integration of non-HIV services into HIV programming is recognized as necessary to meet the needs of persons with HIV, enhancing their quality of life and health outcomes. At the same time, the imperative for integration of HIV treatment into primary care programmes raises an important question. Can primary care programmes be transformed to allow for the provision of the necessary continuity care with the required supportive services that persons with HIV need? Accomplishing this goal may present a pathway to sustaining the HIV response in the current resource-constrained context while enabling the long-desired transformation of primary care services to effectively deliver on their potential for advancing the health of all people.